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Newspaper Article/Clipping

A Page of the Milwaukee Journal

Date: 11 23 1930
Description: Full page illustrated article in the Milwaukee Journal titled "The World Voyagers go Round The Globe by Radio and Roto." Included are photographs an...
Photograph

Buttonhole Camera

Date: 
Description: Buttonhole camera owned and used by Stanley C. Hanks, a Madison realtor. The Concealed Vest camera, manufactured by the Stirn brothers, was used between 18...
Photograph

Unidentified Woman

Date: 
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of an unidentified woman. Waist-up portrait of her seated, facing forward, with her arm resting on a cloth covered table on the r...
Historical Object

Case for George Fairfield

Date: 
Description: Case for George Fairfield sixth plate ferrotype/tintype.
Photograph

Unidentified Girl

Date: 
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of a three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified girl wearing a short sleeved striped dress and holding a cased image in her...
Historical Object

Unidentified Woman

Date: 03 08 1852
Description: Two identical ninth plate ambrotypes of an unidentified woman, set into a Mascher's Improved Stereoscope viewing case, patented March 8th, 1852. She wears ...
Historical Object

Case Cover for Governor William Barstow Daguerreotype

Date: 1853
Description: Case (opened to show front and back) for daguerreotype made to resemble a bound book. Mother-of-pearl decoration on front in the form of flowers, stems and...
Photograph

Photographer Howard Greene

Date: 1914
Description: View looking up at Howard Greene making a photograph outdoors using a large format camera. His head is under the dark cloth.
Photograph

Remembering

Date: 1981
Description: Six family members looking at a photograph album outdoors. Caption reads: "REMEMBERING. Norma Clemente and her family looked through the family album at he...
Photograph

Photographer Howard Greene

Date: 1911
Description: Howard "Dad" Greene makes photographs of the scenery with his Grafflex camera. He is wearing a hat and smoking a pipe.
Photograph

Dad Changing Plates

Date: 1909
Description: Howard Greene (Dad) is changing negative plates in his large format camera on the banks of the Presque Isle River.
Photograph

Film Crew

Date: 09 1971
Description: Three members of a film crew are posing together outdoors with their filming equipment. A man is standing on the far left with his arms crossed, and anothe...
Historical Object

J.J. Findorff & Sons

Date: 1914
Description: Twelve photographs and one letterhead are mounted on a board with captions. The photographs cover the time before and after a fire in 1909 when the company...
Photograph

Jerome Francis Franklin Sr.

Date: 1918
Description: Jerome Francis Franklin Sr. poses in front of the family Drug Store and Eland Post Office. He was postmaster in Eland for many years on and off, also Justi...
Photograph

"The War At Home" Protesters

Date: 1979
Description: The directors of documentary film "The War at Home," Glenn Silber, at left, and Barry Alexander Brown, at right, sit in front of a display of protest image...
Postcard

West Main St., Looking East, Greetings from Merrill

Date: 
Description: Slightly elevated view of businesses along Main Street, including a photographer and a barber. A horse-drawn wagon is in the street near the barbershop, an...
Photograph

Mirrors

Date: 1905
Description: Double-exposed, self-portrait of the photographer looking into a mirror, with another mirror in the background. He is wearing a suit, and has changed a few...
Poster

"Fifteen Hundred Little Pictures" Exhibit Poster

Date: 02 10 1986
Description: Silkscreen poster announcing the Fifteen Hundred Little Pictures Polaroid Photography show. The photographers names are Joann Jensen, Mark Porter and Mike ...
Photograph

Lucy Rumsey Holt at her Desk

Date: 05 1914
Description: With her side to the camera, Lucy Rumsey Holt is sitting at her desk in her bedroom. Sunlight is streaming in from the window on the left. The bedroom wall...
Photograph

Frank Borzage on Set

Date: 1937
Description: Film director Frank Borzage and camera operator Joseph Biroc, along with other members of the film crew, are seen in the reflection of mirrors on the set o...

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